I examine friendships between major characters in modernist novels written by four American writers: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. My examination will reveal that the friendships ...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the secularization of American society
poses a unique problem for fiction writers. As a number of scholars in various fields
have established, humans desire and are oriented ...

This project revises previous scholarship by arguing that the field of ecofeminism does not adequately address the concerns of women of color. Since ecofeminism tends to focus on white women and pristine landscapes, it ...

My dissertation considers how twentieth-century writers such as F. Scott
and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath, and
Bret Easton Ellis have attempted to find meaning in a world that no ...

This dissertation reads the novels of three postmodern authors—Snow
White and The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme, Infinite Jest by David Foster
Wallace, and A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan—in light of the ...

This thesis traces the development of the function of art and the role of the artist throughout J. D. Salinger's publishing career, including his earlier uncollected short stories. Salinger creates a dichotomy between true ...

Women's hair at the turn of the twentieth century (1850s-1920s) can be read as a visual indicator of changing understandings of femininity during this time. As women began to explore the promise of greater female power ...

Cormac McCarthy's novels evoke a more complex perspective than many conventional descriptions—e.g., redemptive or nihilistic, modern or postmodern—allow. Focusing primarily on his Western novels, I demonstrate in contrast ...